http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/10/05/back-from-the-brink-the-return-of-don-draper/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/10/05/back-from-the-brink-the-return-of-don-draper/comment-page-1/#comment-30836 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:38:13 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=6619#comment-30836 Thank you so much for a great post! I agree that series treads a thin line in breaking down Don while trying to maintain what it is about the character that is found appealing. I think it might be productive, as you begin to here, to think about Don not just as a site of discourse on white male masculinity but as a metonym for white male masculinity as a an archetype in history. From this perspective it becomes logical that Don falls apart, in fact must fall apart, and becomes deconstructed at the point in the series in which we are reaching the period of the 60s in which cultural upset is becoming more visible. In relation to this I think it is fascinating that you have located Peggy as capable to merge these professional and personal boundaries comfortably and Joan as being capable of managing and reinstating these boundaries. Thank you for the thought provoking post.

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